[Alberta's Child]

In every industry, you typically have to “sell upward.” This means the customer base for any product or service will generally have a higher standard of living than the people who produce it. A simple illustration of this is a landscaping company that hires a bunch of Mexican immigrants. The company doesn’t do landscaping work in the neighborhoods where the Mexicans live.

If everyone has a high standard of living, there’s nobody to do the work — and prices will rise because low-wage jobs must pay more just to attract workers who have other options.

As one FReeper astutely noted a while back … You can’t have $30/hour wages and Walmart prices at the same time.

[WMarshal]

My response to that is why should government be picking winners and losers? Are you ok with that? It sounds to me that you are totally against upward mobility.